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Editorial

Total Number of Articles: 142

First Article on this Page: November 3, 2023

Latest Article on this Page: March 1, 2024

Editorial

Small but mighty

This year, the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLaS) program celebrated its 25th anniversary at Bowdoin. This weekend will be packed with programming, including speakers, a concert and the College’s first-ever bilingual theater production.

To us, this celebration serves …

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Do Bowdoin parties suck?

We’ve all heard it before, and actually, we’ve written about it before—the classic upperclassmen gripes about the lack of excitement, fun and good parties on campus and the groaning and moaning on Friday and Saturday afternoons about whether or not …

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Pack the stands

Last Saturday night, the men’s hockey team defeated Colby in front of a sold-out Sidney J. Watson Arena. Over 1,900 students, alumni and community members came to show their support for Bowdoin. Alumni tickets sold out in under two hours. …

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We mean business

Returning to the snowy, sleepy town of Brunswick, Maine in the middle of the winter—especially for those who spend break in a large, bustling city—can feel a little bit like going into hibernation. The sidewalks are slippery, the air is …

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What flies with AI?

With the end of another semester comes another Bowdoin Orient Student Survey (BOSS). When you all filled it out (we hope), you may have noticed a new set of questions asking Polar Bears about their habits around generative artificial intelligence …

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On protest

When we talk about political activism, we often frame these conversations quantitatively. We urge each other to vote more, to protest more, to care more.

What we are less eager to address is the quality of our engagement. What are …

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A prescription for sunshine

It’s 4:15 p.m. You step out of your lecture hall, tired from the hours of classwork and seminars, hoping to be greeted by the beautiful Maine sunshine. A brief respite from the grind. A literal light in the darkness.

Except, …

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F is for failure

It’s November, which means spring course registration is officially upon us. Students—hunched over their laptops, brows furrowed as they figure out what classes fulfill major requirements—are beginning their annual song and dance. On top of questions surrounding distribution requirements and …

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